Sport: Big Bill Walton Comes of Age

When Portland Trail Blazer Coach Jack Ramsay arrived to take over his
duties last spring, he announced: "I'm a Bill Walton man." The
declaration made him a minority of one in the Pacific Northwest.

For two Job-like seasons, Portland fans had waited in vain for Walton to
become again the fierce-eyed force that once drove John Wooden's finest
U.C.L.A. teams. They had waited for the 6-ft. 11-in. redhead to sweep
the backboards of rebounds and to show them the best big-man's passing
game in the history of the sport. But he burdened them with ramblings
about FBI bugs in the woodwork. The...